I'm not sure what package introduced this bug, but after running into it today I can confirm it is fixed by upgrading the python-cups package to version 1.9.55. This version has not yet made it into unstable so you will need to build or install it yourself for the time being.

EDIT: Rudimentary build instructions removed as they caused a package error later on.

Last edited by rj.adams on Fri May 25, 2012 1:53 pm, edited 1 time in total.

I have the same problem with my hp laserjet 3030, reinstalled cups and hplip and now I have that progress, that printer is paused, and when I try to turn it on inside the settings window, it gives me this message. If I just click on it in "printing" window, it switches itself on for a while, prints test page and then switches off again.

I should note that while my instructions solved my own printer properties error, it also resulted in a package error that appears while installing other packages (but can seemingly be ignored). Something I need to look into..I'm still a novice at building debian packages.

For some reason at the begining it was only printing test pages and then it was switching itself of but that got me angry and after some swearing connected to randomly clicking various options in printer settings and now it managed to print out the job I needed!)

If I can be of any help by providing you with some info (because I am too lame to do anything more when it comes to linux) just let me know!

The maintainers of the package have been informed and hopefully the new version of python-cups will make it into the official repos sometime soon. Don't need any more info, but thanks for your offer, and thank you for coming back to confirm it worked for you.

Just try to remember to check the python-cups package in Synaptic every so often, because when it is upgraded to 1.9.55 or higher you should move to the official package. Cheers!

Altough I managed to print few pages since my last visit here, it turned out that it was only my luck. It prints only some of the page then it ignores the rest of it and prints some stuff like:EPROTECT= AUTO__________________@PJL SET RESOLUTION=600____________________________________________@PJL SET DENSITY=5________________________________________________________________ @PJL SET DUPLEX=OFF________________________________________________________________________________________ @PJL (where ____ are just empty places, but it wont allow me to format my post)

and I was simply lucky that on these few occasions it managed to get right through to the bottom of the page without that stuff.

Now I needed to print 10 copies of something and it went mad, it started to print and never wanted to stop, the cancel button on the printer was not reacting, so I just had to switch it off, but after I switch it on it started to print again, but this time I managed to cancel the printing.

I got about 16 copies of which only three were full pages, the others went from about 1 cm to maybe half of the page and the rest was replaced with the stuff above.

I wanted to show it to you, but then I discovered that my scanner is not working as well...

Swearing has no effect this time...

Any ideas what can I do about it?

EDIT: I noticed that where unknown IPP tag was, in "Other options - advanced" i have "print-color-mode" set to color, and I neither can remove that option, nor switch it to monochromatic, as after clicking "ok" or "apply" it pops up again - just as it was with that IPP tag... So I guess that might be somehow related...

EDIT 2: I tried other drivers available, but the problem seems to be common for all of them. So I installed it back to how it was and also reinstalled the package from you, but I am back to square one: it wont print anything, if I turn it on in settings it will switch off after second or two. Except that there is no unknown IPP tag popup window, but I can't remove that print-color-mode option now where unknown IPP tag used to be...

How did you install the printer? Via `hp-setup`? Have you restarted cups? `sudo service cups restart`Have you tried printing as root? In some cases there could be a permission error with using the USB device so this might help narrow it down.

Try deleting the printer and adding it again. First try adding it via hp-setup. If it still doesn't print correctly, delete it, restart cups, and try adding it through Administration->Printing->Add Printer (`system-config-printer`) instead.

If there are still problems, post again with the output of `hp-check -g` attached and I'll try to help diagnose it.

I really think the problem is unrelated to python-cups - it would seem your printer device isn't using the right PPD file or has an incorrect setup courtesy of the old python-cups, so definitely check that first.

When I attempted to do it via hp-setup I found that for some reason hplip is missing. I installed it and the printer popped up in Administration-Printing-Add printer by itself and prints perfectly. Sadly there is still no scanner, so I checked and sane was missing for some reason as well. Installed it, no help.

As for hp-check-g, well, that attacks me with so much screens of communicates that I can't even go back far enough to see them all. But I hope the most important things are at the bottom, so I copied and pasted as much as I could here: http://poteflon.pl/paste/3715

-----------| SUMMARY |-----------

error: 12 errors and/or warnings.

But at least I have printer working, so I managed to print what I need for tomorow and I go to grab some sleep - I have about 4 hours left...

As for the scanner: I noticed that python-imaging-sane is not installing, do I need that one as well?

I just loaded up xsane myself and it couldn't find my HP photosmart all-in-one. Forcing a reinstallation of libsane-hpaio fixed the problem--so maybe hplips software needs to install the printer device before sane is configured, but who knows.

Glad your printer is working. Please post again and let me know if you're able to scan with it, and also whether you ended up downgrading python-cups to 1.9.55 or if you're still at 1.9.61. Cheers!

Fornhamfred wrote:I had the same problem but after downloading your python cups packages my system is now corrupted and the log files are so large that the system will not startup.

Could you suggest any remedy please

None of the python-cups packages I posted should affect your system in such a way, so I'm thinking you have a different problem. If you can't boot into recovery mode, try booting into single user mode and removing the log files. Instructions for booting into single-user mode or recovery mode are widely available.

i just experienced (the english version) of this error message adding a networked hp officejet j4500 on a winxp machine.

since i'm a noob i just stopped and figured i'd ask what to do from here on xfce?

i'd rather not mess up this install for a network printer (since i haven't had a problem doing this for some time, but i think this last respin is diff).

there doesn't seem to be any indication it doesn't function and it printed the gedit contents of my fstab.

i wouldn't even know where to look to see if the error still exists and i'm unsure if i should add the scanner portion like i have to for windoze. is this a case of installing extra drivers in winxp for the printer so lmde xfce doesn't generate that error message?